The idea had germinated on the social networks. The people of the district of Grésilles in Dijonunder pressure since a week, have decided to organise an event this Saturday place of the Republic, to demand the resignation of the prefect of Côte d’or, Bernard Schmeltz. Late in the evening of Friday, Bernard Schmeltz has decided to ban the event.
” In the context of the events that have marked the spirits last weekend, with a settlement of account in the centre of the city and in the district of Grésilles the 12 June, followed by demonstrations which could not but arouse the indignation of the 13 and 14 June, inflammatory statements have chafed the spirits and encouraged urban violence Monday, 15 June. All of these events led to the establishment of an important feature of police “said the prefect in a press release.
A delayed response of the forces of order ?
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood point to the delay in taking action of police during violence in the area last weekend. Of the criticisms that sweeps Bernard Schmeltz. “In spite of the intervention as fast as possible to the police, in the face of the assailants dispersed and highly mobile whose behaviours could not be anticipated, on the 12th of June, in spite of their engagement in situations of great tension that could at any time degenerate in disorders still more serious, and despite their massive presence, on the 14th of June, on the plateau of Corcelles-les-Monts and to Grésilles, to secure the neighborhoods around the progression of a group of which it was necessary to prevent dispersion in order to control it and prevent it from committing human rights abuses, an opinion to be unfounded would like us to believe that the police did not intervene this weekend, and that the neighborhoods have been abandoned to the vindictiveness of a violent group. It is nothing, of course “.
Do not put yourself in danger by participating in an illegal gathering
In this tense context, the prefect of Côte d’or was decided this Friday night to prohibit this event. “Do not put yourself in danger by participating in an illegal gathering, which could be infiltrated by thugs” he says in a press release. “Saturday, in Dijon, everything leads us to think that violence might be committed on the fringes of this event. Also, I decided to make an order of prohibition to protest, which has just been published by posting on the prefecture. The Republic, is not to live next to each other, it is to live with each other. Let us make it together, trusting our own righteousness to take the penal consequences of the sad events that we experienced “.
150 CRS deployed in the city centre
A wide scope of the ban has been put in place. It extends from the historic city centre and squares connected by wide boulevards, forming a kind of device. “Two companies of CRS, which is nearly 150 men, will be deployed “ to secure the perimeter, specified to the AFP, the prefecture, from “add to the manpower of the police from the public road “.
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